Your Liverpool morning digest for Sunday, September 11
Liverpool decision that prompted FSG's £80m plan and will lead to new club record
When Liverpool welcomed Leicester City to Anfield on September 10, 2016, it would be a game that would draw the biggest home crowd for the Reds for some 40 years.
A crowd of 53,075 were in attendance for the clash against the Foxes, the largest to have been inside Anfield since the Reds hosted West Ham United on May 14, 1977, when the congregation stood at 55,675.
READ MORE: Liverpool's 17 central midfielders signed in the FSG era ranked
It was a game that marked the opening of the redeveloped Main Stand at Anfield, a development that owners Fenway Sports Group saw from early on as vital to raising revenues at the club, both on matchdays and commercially.
Plans for the expansion were revealed in 2014, the aim to add another 8,500 seats to help satisfy the enormous demand for tickets as well as to offer a vastly improved hospitality offering that would deliver significant revenue uplifts. It wouldn't be cheap, though, with the work, which started in December 2014, costing around £114m. The work was done around the existing structure of the Main Stand to ensure that it remained fully operational during the 2015/16 season.
Read the full story from Dave Powell.
Liverpool planning for Champions League game against Ajax after postponement
Liverpool expect their Champions League clash against Ajax at Anfield to go ahead next week despite the weekend postponements following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Reds' home Premier League game against Wolverhampton Wanderers, scheduled for 3pm on Saturday afternoon, was postponed after the football authorities opted to call off all games in the four days following the Queen's death.
Liverpool instead trained at Kirkby on Saturday as Jurgen Klopp, his coaching staff and players look to respond positively to Wednesday's dismal 4-1 Champions League defeat at Napoli.
Read the full story from Ian Doyle.
READ NEXT:
- Jurgen Klopp already has answer to Liverpool crisis and Thiago is only one part of it
- Liverpool and FSG have already taken Graham Potter gamble that will concern Chelsea
- Jurgen Klopp handed chance to address Liverpool's biggest problem - and it's not their high line
What happened to Liverpool fixtures the last time a monarch died
Spanish paper takes swipe at Liverpool and claims Jurgen Klopp 'flatly ruled out' three big signings
